Last cycle there were betas for seasoned developers - they were part of the still-missing open source release. (Unless you needed calendars or google services/google maps, it worked fine..)
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Wayne Wenthin <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree that the work may be built on each successive release. I think a > bigger issue may be that items come and go through a beta release cycle. > If you got beta1 and relied on getAndroidToastButteringSchedule(), if it > never makes to to the final release and you failed to keep up with > successive beta releases you are really going to be hacked off at everyone > but yourself. The current developer community (present company excluded) > seems to be very green and will probably make many mistakes regarding the > development process. I have now lost my train of thought... I guess to > sum it up it would be nice if there were beta releases for seasoned > developers that know how to handle them and don't expect much support but I > see it turning into a flame fest if that were to happen. > > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> That assumes that each sdk is an independent unrelated release, which >> is not the case. Multiple -FINAL- sdks may in fact be more work, but >> multiple betas are not - the work done to release rc1 is built upon by >> rc2, rc3...rcN and the final release. >> >> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Marco Nelissen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:14 AM, MrChaz <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Yeah it would but given it's their job to support the community and >> >> the community is demanding more maybe they should start to look at >> >> their practices. >> > >> > It's not my job to "support the community", but since I'm obviously >> > doing so poorly at it, this will be my last post. >> > In any case, all I meant to say was that the reasoning in the first >> > message in this thread is flawed: if SDKs are "late "because it's a >> > lot of work to put them together, then having multiple beta SDK >> > releases will be even more work, and is therefore likely not going to >> > result in faster delivery. >> > >> > > >> > >> >> > > > > -- > Writing code is one of few things > that teaches me I don't know everything. > > http://www.fuligin.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
